John Geary
Negative Bouquet
Oil and acrylic on canvas
80' x 76"
John Geary (b. 1967, Atlantic City, New Jersey) was destined to be an artist. From selling Xerox copies of his cartoon drawings to his 4th grade classmates, to being arrested on the Santa Monica Freeway in a realistic devil costume, his creative pursuits have continued unabated. A graduate of UCLA's MFA program in the 1990s, Geary belongs to a generation that ushered in a new era of California-based art. Shortly after graduating he curated the landmark group show, Malibu Sex Party, which put a number of young LA artists on the art world's radar. Geary's oeuvre crosses media and genres freely but his studio practice revolves around drawing.

John Geary has been featured in numerous exhibitions in the US and internationally, including Solo shows at Fredericks and Freiser in New York and the Black Dragon Society and C Nichols Project in Los Angeles. He has preformed with the late Glenn Branca at the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and at The Roundhouse in London, UK as part of the Frieze Art Fair. His artistic pursuits have taken him around the globe, most recently to Taiwan and Mexico City. John Geary lives and works in Santa Monica, CA.

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